Will Okun, the Chicago school teacher who accompanied enlightened Nick [not Bill] Kristof on a trip to Africa earlier this year and got to blog about, misses badly with today's post.It happens too often. A female student approaches my desk, says “Mr. Okun?”, and and whispers...
This may be the single worst paragraph I've ever seen at Slate, and goddamn man, they employ Hitchens:I've been soaking my head in each side's computations and arguments. They're incredibly.
The recent hysteria about a few peripheral citations of legal norms in other liberal democracies in Supreme Court opinions has reached some kind of apex with a speaker at a.
Responding to Sean Wilentz's attempt to analogize Obama and Clinton to Stevenson and JFK, respectively, in 1960 I think Matt has the correct response:Meanwhile, the reality of the Kennedy Administration -- as opposed to the Myth of Camelot -- is precisely what makes people leery of...
The Patriots are, uh... pretty good.You heard it here first.
Well, to the forced pregnancy brigade, there is no difference: my uterus is nothing but a glorified storage container, holding something until it reaches its destination (birth). Now there's proof:Here's.
The one thing that's fairly clear is that William Saletan doesn't understand the most compelling extant critiques of linking ethnicity with IQ. I'm unsure of two things, however. First, is Saletan intentionally or accidentally obtuse? Second, if Saletan is accidentally obtuse, are the causes genetic or...
The heart sags at the idea of dealing with yet another case of MoDo using her longing for 19th century gender relations to create asinine, content-free negative scripts about the.
Oregon really does look like this.I'm not sure Farley would have signed off on my gig here if he'd known I'd never been to Oregon before, say, last night. The.
In the second half of the 14th the rulership of northeast Asia was in a state of flux. The Mongols ruled China as the Yuan Dynasty until 1371, when they were replaced by the Mings and chased back to Mongolia. This had the effect of seriously...
I know I swore that it would never be spoken of again, but the report that Dixon played knowing he had a torn ACL demands comment. My first thought is.
Farley is now the 849th most common surname in America, down 23 from 1990. The Lemieux's have apparently suffered some sort of holocaust in the last seventeen years, as they've.